Re: [dhcwg] Re: DHCP behind NAT

There's no way to make your proposed change RFC2131 at this late date.
Too many devices have been deployed that follow the current protocol
specification.   In order to do what you need, you have to come up
with a different method.   I would recommend that you investigate the
subnet selection option.   Send the address to which you want the
reply sent in giaddr, and use the subnet-selection-option to store the
address you would otherwise have stored in giaddr.

I agree with you, by the way, that your proposed way of doing this is
better than the way that RFC2131 does it.   The problem is not that
you're wrong, but that you're too late - this behavior was
canonicalized in RFC951, and that's the last time it was possible to
fix this the way you propose.   :'}

			       _MelloN_

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